Personally, for me, not being able to access other styles isn't the end of the world, because I pretty much make up my own anyway, but as Don said, it's the principle of the whole thing. As far as other manufacturers following suit.. Who knows...? There has never been any indication that Korg will take this stance, but hey you never know do you ? The way their site is currently set up actually seems to HELP people to get access to their styles. Could that change ? Sure it could...I guess we'll see if it ever does.
You're right too SK..I don't need EMC to convert either for Yamaha or Korg styles. In fact , with the proper sysex codes, markers, and Casm information a style can be made manually on a sequencer if desired ( what a royal pain that is though ). I wonder though, will Yamaha next ask people like Michael P Bedesem who are making freeware style conversion software and related stuff to cease and desist as well?? Hmmmm if so... where does it all end ?


Cliff.. In response to your comment about what Yamaha should tell its CVP customers about the " $7K styles " being freely available to 2000 users, let me turn this thing around for just a second if I may.. What does Yamaha tell it's 9000 PRO customers when it is already been noted by several people here that some of the styles available on the much cheaper 2000 appear to be improved over the ones on the 9000 series ?? I'm only guessing here, but I really gotta doubt that too many folks will buy the 2000 instead of the 9000 pro because of a difference in styles. I'm guessing that the decision comes down to type of use and the many extra features and capabilities of a 9k Pro", measured against the price differences of the boards.


"Korg" AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 01-29-2002).]